A very odd thing happened when I visited the house and studio of surrealist artist Joan Miró recently in Palma. It was all the more peculiar because as a decade old resident of Majorca, I’ve of course been there before and never ever noticed it. The dead cat, that is.

Joan Miró's sculptures are on show in Yorkshire but mystery surrounds his dead cat

Let me digress a moment. This month Joan Miró’s rather mischievous large bronze and no doubt chilly sculptures will be adorning the splendid 500 acre Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield. It’s a far cry from sunny Spain so I do hope they’ll shroud the poor naked newcomers in blankets at night and maybe even supply them with hot water bottles should the weather take a turn for the worse.

I’m confident that the thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the park will appreciate the grand master’s quirky style and his penchant for giving life to horned,… Read more